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AppDynamics vs Zenoss Cloud comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
7.2
AppDynamics' customer support gets mixed reviews; some praise responsiveness and professionalism, others criticize slow responses and communication issues.
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Room For Improvement

Sentiment score
3.7
Users want AppDynamics to improve features, integrations, support, costs, AI capabilities, ease of use, and cloud performance.
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Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.1
Users have mixed opinions on AppDynamics' scalability, praising its potential but noting challenges and performance issues at larger scales.
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Setup Cost

Sentiment score
4.4
AppDynamics' licensing costs range widely and can be expensive, leading some companies to consider cheaper alternatives like DataDog and Dynatrace.
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Stability Issues

Sentiment score
6.2
AppDynamics is highly rated for stability and reliability, with users appreciating its performance and planning to continue its use.
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Valuable Features

Sentiment score
8.5
AppDynamics offers robust monitoring, real-time alerts, detailed diagnostics, customizable dashboards, and extensive integration, enhancing operational efficiency and user experience.
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Categories and Ranking

AppDynamics
Ranking in Container Monitoring
3rd
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.5
Number of Reviews
156
Ranking in other categories
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (5th), Mobile APM (3rd)
Zenoss Cloud
Ranking in Container Monitoring
11th
Average Rating
8.4
Number of Reviews
8
Ranking in other categories
Application Infrastructure (34th), Event Monitoring (15th), Network Monitoring Software (72nd), Server Monitoring (24th), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (59th), Cloud Monitoring Software (41st), AIOps (20th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Container Monitoring category, the mindshare of AppDynamics is 28.5%, down from 33.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Zenoss Cloud is 0.6%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Container Monitoring
 

Featured Reviews

Venus Yaker Dalton - PeerSpot reviewer
Very good real-time monitoring capabilities, deep problem diagnosis, and transaction mapping
As for areas of improvement, AppDynamics could benefit from greater integration with emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning. This would allow the tool to automatically analyze and correlate application performance and behavior data to detect patterns and anomalies not evident to users. Additionally, the ability to track performance in multi-cloud environments would be valuable as many organizations are adopting hybrid cloud or multi-cloud strategies. In terms of additional features, it would be beneficial to include a capacity management module that allows operations teams to proactively plan and adjust capacity, avoiding performance issues related to lack of resources.
ClaudiaChen - PeerSpot reviewer
Generates close to real-time alerts so users can resolve issues, but needs more integration and public cloud monitoring features
As Zenoss Service Dynamics is more for network-centric devices and you want to monitor, for example, a server, its services, IP addresses, and interfaces, if it's a network and you're going to monitor multiple items, you'll be charged multiple times. This is what Zenoss Service Dynamics needs to improve to make sure that customers pay just one fee to monitor the entire server. What I'd like to see in Zenoss Service Dynamics in the future is a public cloud monitoring feature, particularly for the Azure public cloud. Another additional feature I'd like to see in the next release of the solution is integration with the Azure public cloud because I know that there are some services from Azure that Zenoss Service Dynamics is currently unable to monitor.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Educational Organization
48%
Financial Services Firm
16%
Computer Software Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
5%
Computer Software Company
21%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Healthcare Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

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Comparisons

 

Also Known As

AppD, AppDynamics APM
Cloud Monitoring, Zenoss Service Dynamics
 

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Sample Customers

Cisco, Sony, Nasdaq, Reserve Bank of New Zealand, Edmunds.com, Puma, Fox News, DirecTV, Pizza Hut, T-Systems, Cornell University, OpenTable, BITMARCK, Green Mountain Power, Care.com, Overstock, Paddy Power, eHarmony, Kraft, The Motley Fool, The Container Store, and more See more customers
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